Assignment #5: Chapters 1-14

  • Keep adding two or three events per chapter to your plot line. Do not go beyond Chapter 14 as some students have not finished reading those chapters.
  • Write these events under assignment #4, highlighting the chapters and adding bullets for the events.
  • NEW ASSIGNMENT!!!
  • Look for pictures that reflect how you think each character looks. These can be current or past movie stars, current or past actors and/or actresses, or pictures you draw that reflect the images of the characters.
  • Create a collage with these pictures, putting the character's name under each picture. You can decide what materials to use for your collage. These will NOT be posted on the WIKI.
  • Be creative! Have fun with this assignment. It will be interesting to see how everyone pictures each character.
  • Due date: Wednesday, December 16.


Assignment #4: Chapters 1-6 12/5/09 Chapter 7-8 12/8/09

  • Put a new line between assignments #3 and #4.
  • Put your answer ABOVE the previous assignment.
  • Copy this assignment to your page.
  • Add the date above this assignment.
  • Start a plot line. Identify the setting first.
  • Add two or three key events from each chapter that we have read - chapters 1-6 - to reflect the rising action.
  • Identify each chapter and put the two or three events as bullet points under the chapter number.
  • For example:
Setting
Time and Place
Add the time and place here.
Chapter 1
  • Mr. Blore is the only one with the list of names that are going to Indian Island
  • He says he is from South Africa
Chapter 2
  • Fred Narrcottic thinking to himself saying that this is an unusual group
  • He knows that Mr. Owen invites rich and important people, but this is the first time he has seen middle class people go to the Island
Chapter 3
  • Tony dies by choking
  • The mechanical voice accuses all of the guests of murder.
Chapter 4
  • When they all go to bed they all remember the terrible sins they committed
  • All of them remember how, who, and when they committed their murders
Chapter 5
  • Tony dies by choking
  • Dr. Armstrong says that he committed suicide, but they don't understand why.
Chapter 6
  • Dr. Armstrong has a nightmare that he kills a patient
  • Mr. Rodgers wakes him up
Chapter 7
  • Lombard and Armstrong were talking about the possibility that Mr. Rogers killed his wife
  • two more indian figures disappear
Chapter 8
  • A storm was coming to the island
  • Macarthur is convicted of murder
Chapter 9
  • Blore thinks that Dr. Armstrong gave Mrs.Rogers a overdose of sleeping meds. it
  • it was noticed that an other indian figure disappeared
Chapter 10
  • Vera thinks that Armstrong killed the two people because they were both poisoned
  • During tea time, Mr. Rogers comes to the room and says that the bathroom curtain was not there
Chapter 11
  • Rogers’s body was found in the woodshed
  • Blore tells Lombard that he thinks Emily is the killer of Rogers
Chapter 12
  • As the others go out and clean up in the kitchen, Emily sees a bee buzzing outside of the window and realizes that there is someone behind her
  • Wargrave suggests they lock away any potential weapons, including Lombard’s gun and Armstrong’s medicine case
Chapter 13
  • The guests use candles, because Rogers is can no longer operate the house’s generator
  • As Vera enters her room to take a shower enters she suddenly feels as if she were again at the seashore where to boy drowned

Wow! Chris, you have picked out some key events in each chapter. Good job! You will have lots of information to work with when we start our plot lines in class. Just a few more chapters and you'll be finished.


Assignment #3 December 3, 2009

  • choose 5 characters
  • write two sentences tilling what you know about him or her

Dr. Armstrong
He was a very rich doctor. He made it sound that rich women had a illness to get their money.

Vera Claymore
She was a third class citizen that didn't have much money. she was a teacher and wanted a new job.

Mr. Wargrave
He was a old man that was retired. He also smoked cigars.

General Macarther
He was a general that was in the war. he retired because he was old.
Oops! Good start, but you need one more character to make it five. Add one more.

Assignment #2 (to be done in class on Wednesday, December 2)
  • Read chapter two.
  • On your student page ABOVE assignment #1, choose one of the following: suspense or foreshadowing.
  • Find four examples of suspense OR foreshadowing in chapter two.
  • Write the exact wording from the book - that means type the sentences exactly as they are written.
  • In a well-written paragraph, explain why these sentences clearly show either suspense or foreshadowing.

"if you will go on" It sounds like the person was asking someone to follow him
"it's a long way out" It sounds like he was going to fall in to trouble with something
"thats a very small boat" It sounds like someone was going to get killed in the boat
"will you come this way, please" sounds like someone was going to have a murder happen

I picked this reasons because they all sounded like suspense. They all sounded like someone was going to get killed. All of them made me keep reading because at some points I wanted to stop reading it. For example, "it's a long way out" sounds like he was going to fall in to trouble with something. And those are some reasons why I picked them.

Chris-
Your page is still not linked to any other page. You were to link this to the 'AND THEN THERE WERE NONE' page and to the 'Student Pages'. Please do so. If you need help, please ask and I will meet with you to do this.

You have a start on the answers. Be sure and read over your posts; reading the posts out loud often helps the reader (you) to hear your mistakes.

Mrs. M


Assignment #1 November 30, 2009
  • how does a mystery novel differ from a narrative?

A mystery story is a story that has a mystery in it that people solve. It is a story that has mystery in it that you have to figure out during the reading. A narrative is a story that has speech that describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events.
  • how might the title be a clue to the story?

The story title to me sounds like it has murder in it. It might also have a war in it.

Chris,
Good answers. You're right; readers have to solve a mystery.

Mrs. M